WASHINGTON _ Donald Trump Jr. and Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign manager, will not testify publicly next week under a deal worked out Friday with the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The two will meet with committee members and staff privately the committee chairman, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, announced. Grassley said they were still expected to give public testimony later.
Grassley said that another witness, Glenn Simpson, the head of Fusion GPS, an investigative company based in Washington, would be subpoenaed after declining to testify.
Simpson's company hired a former British spy, Christopher Steele, to look into reports that Russian intelligence held compromising information about Trump. Steele produced a lengthy dossier of reported kompromat, which became public shortly before Trump's inauguration.
Trump has denied the accusations in the dossier.
Simpson's attorneys have said he would resist the subpoena, arguing that the committee's questions would violate the First Amendment rights of his clients as well as his own Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
